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Magnani
Magnani is an Italian-language occupational surname derived from the occupation of locksmith. The surname Magnani was first found in Bologna (Latin: Bononia), the largest city and the capital of Emilia-Romagna Region. The early record shows that a bearer of Magnani was a government magistrate in 1223. In those ancient times only persons of rank, the podesta, clergy, city officials, army officers, artists, landowners were entered into the records. To be recorded at this time was in itself a family honor. The Magnani family distinguished itself among the high-society of 1800' Florence and was listed in the "Golden books of Florentine nobility" commissioned initially by Ferdinando I de' Medici. Important Palazzos in both Florence and Bologna among others still carry the name of the family. Notable people with the surname include: *Anna Magnani (1908–1973), Italian actress and Academy Award winner for best actress 1956 * Aurélio Magnani (1856–1921), Italian clarinetist *Dante ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Magnani
Anna Maria Magnani (; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian actress.Obituary ''Variety'', 3 October 1973, pg. 47 She was known for her explosive acting and earthy, realistic portrayals of characters. Born in Rome, she worked her way through Rome's Academy of Dramatic Art by singing at night clubs. During her career, her only child was stricken by polio when he was 18 months old and remained disabled. She was referred to as "La Lupa", the "perennial toast of Rome" and a "living she-wolf symbol" of the cinema. ''Time'' described her personality as "fiery", and drama critic Harold Clurman said her acting was "volcanic". In the realm of Italian cinema, she was "passionate, fearless, and exciting," an actress whom film historian Barry Monush calls "the volcanic earth mother of all Italian cinema."Monush, Barry. ''The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors'', Hal Leonard Corp. (2003) Director Roberto Rossellini called her "the greatest acting genius since Eleonora Duse" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Magnani
Lorenzo Magnani (born 1952), is an Italian philosopher who teaches philosophy of science in the Department of Humanities, Philosophy Section, at the University of Pavia, where he is full professor and directs the Computational Philosophy Laboratory. Recently he has been (2006/2012) visiting professor at the Sun Yat-sen University in China. In the event of the 50th anniversary of the re-building of the Philosophy Department of Sun Yat-sen University in 2010, an award was given to him to acknowledge his contributions to the areas of philosophy, philosophy of science, logic, and cognitive science. Magnani's primary research interests are the philosophy of science, logic, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of medicine. His historical research has centered on 19th- and 20th-century geometry and the philosophy of geometry. Currently he is studying the processes of conceptual innovation and change in science also in the perspective of abductive reasoning. A ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Magnani
Marco Magnani (born 26 May 1969) is an Italian economist. Biography Education and career At 16 he was aAFSscholar, lived for a year in the United States and gained a US High School diploma. He has a degree in economics at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at thCollege of Cavalieri del Lavoro in Rome He is a Jona scholar and gained a Master in Business Administration and Finance at Columbia University. He also completed executives programs in leadership e public policies at the Harvard Kennedy School, at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs di Yale University and at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of Singapore He has nearly 20 years of professional experience, primarily in '' investment banking'' in New York City with ''JP Morgan'' and in Milan with Mediobanca. He is a member of the ''Global Agenda Council on Banking and Capital Markets''. Since 2011 he has led the research project ''Italy 2030'' at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giangiacomo Magnani
Giangiacomo Magnani (born 4 October 1995) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Serie A club Hellas Verona. Mainly a centre-back, he can also play as a right-back. Career Sassuolo acquired Magnani from Juventus at 27 July 2018, where he stayed one month. On 31 January 2020, his loan to Brescia was terminated by mutual consent. On 2 September 2020, Magnani joined Hellas Verona on loan until 30 June 2021, with a conditional obligation to buy. On 16 January 2022, he joined Sampdoria Unione Calcio Sampdoria, commonly referred to as Sampdoria (), is an Italian professional football club based in Genoa. The club was formed in 1946 from the merger of two existing sports clubs whose roots can be traced back to the 1890s, ... on loan. References External links * Living people 1995 births Footballers from Reggio Emilia Italian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Virtus Verona players FC Lumezzane SSD players A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Magnani
Giovanni Magnani (''fl.'' 1913) was a Romanian-Italian entrepreneur who lived in Bucharest at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1911 he fabricated a set of propellers for '' A Vlaicu II'' airplane, thus becoming the first propeller manufacturer in Southeast Europe. Before meeting Vlaicu, Magnani built around 1910 in Bucharest an ornithopter that never flew. After Vlaicu's death, one of the two aircraft on order from for Marconi Company was completed by Magnani and Constantin Silisteanu, and was tested in 1914 by pilot Petre Macavei on Cotroceni airfield. See also * Aurel Vlaicu * A Vlaicu II * Husqvarna Motorcycles Husqvarna Motorcycles GmbH (; marketed as Husqvarna) is a Swedish-origin Austrian company which designs, engineers, manufactures and distributes motocross, enduro, supermoto and street motorcycles. The company began producing motorcycles in 19 ... References Engineers from Bucharest Businesspeople from Bucharest 20th-century Romanian people [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Magnani Feroni
The Palazzo Magnani Feroni is a Renaissance Palace in Florence, central Italy, dating back to the 15th century. It is built in the purest Florentine style and is decorated and adorned with statues, paintings and frescoes dating from the 16th century. The entrance-way dates back to the 17th century and leads to the iron gate decorated with the coat-of-arms of the Feroni family: an armour-clad arm, holding a sword and a golden lily. History The Del Puglieses, a distinguished family of the Florentine Republic, owned a residence in that area from the early fifteenth century and enlarged it in 1428 by acquiring eight additional smaller apartments, which the previous owner, Niccolò Serragli, had already unified under a single roof. The Del Puglieses are remembered for their patronage of the arts and Giorgio Vasari writes that, in this location, Piero di Cosimo painted a number of stories on the walls of a room, and Fra Bartolomeo Fra Bartolomeo or Bartolommeo (, , ; 28 March 1472&n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primo Magnani
Primo Magnani (31 March 1892 – 17 June 1969) was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp (with Arnaldo Carli, Ruggero Ferrario and Franco Giorgetti Franco Giorgetti (13 October 1902 – 18 March 1983) was an Italian racing cyclist and Olympic champion in track cycling. Giorgetti was born in Bovisio-Masciago. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antw ...). Magnani also participated in the 50 kilometres competition but his exact result is unknown. References External links * 1892 births 1969 deaths Italian male cyclists Italian track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Italy Cyclists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Italy Sportspeople from Pavia Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Cyclists from the Province of Pavia {{Italy-cycling-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia
The Palazzo Magnani, also known as the ''Palazzo Becchi-Magnani'', is a Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical-style palace located on Corso Giuseppe Garibaldi 29 in the historic center of the town of Reggio Emilia in Italy. The original palace was commissioned in the late 16th century by Count Becchi. The location on the then via della Basilica della Ghiara, Ghiara, now Corso Garibaldi, became a fashionable location for houses of the wealthy in town. The palace is notable for a fine decorated frieze below the roofline and a marble telamon-like figure at the corner of the building, depicting the god Janus, sculpted in 1576 by Prospero Sogari . By the early nineteenth century, ownership of the palace passed to the aristocratic Chioffi family, who refurbished the facade to its present Neoclassical style. In 1917, after various changes in ownership, the house passed to the Magnani family. Luigi Magnani endowed the Magnani-Rocca Foundation to display his art collections at his villa a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cesare Ricotti-Magnani
Cesare Francesco Ricotti Magnani (June 30, 1822 - August 4, 1917) was an Italian general who served as Minister of War of the Kingdom of Italy. Biography He was born at Borgolavezzaro, near Novara. As artillery lieutenant, he distinguished himself and was wounded at the Siege of Peschiera del Garda in 1848, and in 1852 gained further distinction by his efforts to prevent the explosion of a burning powder magazine. After serving from 1856 to 1859. as Director of the Artillery School, he became General of Division in 1864, commanding the 5th Division at the Battle of San Martino. In the war of 1866 he stormed Borgoforte, to open a passage for Cialdini's army. Upon the death of General Govone in 1872 he was appointed Minister of War, and after the occupation of Rome bent all his efforts to army reform, in accordance with the lessons of the Franco-German War. He shortened the period of military service, extended conscription to all able-bodied men, created a permanent army, a mobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giulio Magnani
Giulio Magnani ( lat, Julius Magnanus; June 1505 – 25 September 1565) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Calvi Risorta (1560–1565). Biography Giulio Magnani was born in Piacenza in June 1505. He entered in the Order of Friars Minor Conventual. He earned a Doctorate of Sacred Theology and in 1549 became Attorney General of his order. In 1551 he was appointed Vicar general of the Friars Minor Conventual and in Genoa in 1553 he was elected Minister General, an office he maintained up to 1559. Giulio Magnani participated to Council of Trent, including also the sessions in the years 1545–1547 as delegate of his order. He was remembered as ''a gentle, erudite and austere man''. On 17 July 1560, he was appointed by Pope Pius IV as Bishop of Calvi Risorta. The episcopal consecration followed on 28 July 1560 in the Basilica of the Santi Apostoli in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marciano Magnani
Marziano Magnani (14 June 1936 – 11 November 1983) was an Italian wrestler. He competed in the men's Greco-Roman middleweight at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held .... Magnani was also a four-time national champion in the 1960s and 1970s. References External links * 1936 births 1983 deaths Italian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Italy Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bologna 20th-century Italian people {{Italy-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palazzo Magnani, Bologna
Palazzo Magnani is a Renaissance palace located on Via Zamboni number 20 in central Bologna, region of Emilia Romagna, Italy, built by the Magnani noble family with the same name. Construction on the palace began in 1577 under architect Domenico Tibaldi until his death in 1583. Floriano Ambrosini then took over the architectural duties. In 1797 the palace became a property of the Guidotti family. In the late 19th century they sold it to the Malvezzi Campeggi family whose coat of arms is still visible on the façade. The Palazzo Malvezzi Campeggi rises adjacent to this one, just northeast along Via Zamboni. Subsequently, Palazzo Magnani was inhabited by the Salem family. Currently it is the local office for the Unicredit (was a headquarter of Rolo Banca and Credito Romagnolo ). Among the most important artworks in the interior is the frescoed frieze of ''Histories of the Foundation of Rome'' executed in 1590 by the painters Ludovico, Annibale and Agostino Carracci in the salon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
